One night I was sitting with my mother at the kitchen table and we had just finished eating. I asked her, mom, do you remember where you went to first grade. She answered without hesitation - Saint Monica's. Saint Monica's was located in south Philadelphia.

Another time, my mother started to sing a song that I had never heard before in my life. A little reseearch determinded that the song had first been made popular by Billie Holiday in 1932. My mother was 16 years old at the time. My mother sang this song in the most beautiful voice you ever heard.

If you would have asked me if this was possible before it happened I would have told you - Not a Ghost of a Chance.

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